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Programming for preventing sexual abuse and abduction: what does it mean when it works?

PubMedPublished 24 March 1988
Sherryll Kerns Kraizer, G E Fryer, Michelle Miller
Citations18

TL;DR

The program described in this article is effective without introducing negative, anxiety-producing stories, examples, and other warnings.

Abstract

Many kinds of educational programs and other approaches to teaching children about the dangers of sexual abuse and abduction by strangers can have the "side effect" of creating new anxieties in the children. The program described in this article is effective without introducing negative, anxiety-producing stories, examples, and other warnings.

Keywords

Psychology